A Complete History of England (V. 5)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A. c. i4le' that the realm of England would be fold to France; and that preparations were making in that kingdom for an invafion, by contrivance of the duke of Suf- - folk, who had fortified Wallingford-caftle, to ferve as a place of refuge. On the feventh day of February, the commons, by their fpeaker, impeached Suffolk of divers articles of treafon, contained in a bill delivered to the chancellor, importing, That he had confulted with the count of Dunois, Ber- trand de Preffigny, and W. Coufinat, the king's enemies, advifmg them to incite the French king to invade England, depofe Henry, and raife to the throne his fon John de la Pole, who, by marrying Margaret, .daughter and heir to John late duke f Somerfet, might claim the crown in her right, as next heir to Henry, who had no iffue: That he had received money and promifes from the duke of Orleans, to perfuade the king to corrient to his enlargement, that he might affift Charles in the recovery of France: That, by his inftigation, the duke of Orleans had prevailed upon the French king to violate the truce, and renew the war in Normandy: That he had, without fufficient power, engaged for the ceffion of Lc Maine; and, after his return, executed that engagement, which was the caufe of Normandy's being loft to the Eng- lifh nation: That he had difcovered the fecrets of the king's council to the count de Dunois, and other French ambaffadors: That he had made them acquainted with the ftate of all the French fortrefles belonging to the Englifh in France; dif- covered the fecret inftructions of the Englifh envoys fent to treat of a peace between the two crowns; boafted of his credit with Charles; received bribes from the enemy, for hindering rein forcements from being fent to the continent; and in the truce which he concluded, not...

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